tag team

noun

1
: a team of two or more professional wrestlers who spell each other during a match
2
: two or more people working in association toward the same goal
usually hyphenated when used attributively

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Most of all, AI makers that adopt an AI-to-AI tag team as a safeguard should be mindfully cautious about touting what this functionality accomplishes. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 More John Moore/Getty Images The angle immediately led to widespread speculation that Lee would return to even the odds, setting up a mixed tag team match between the two couples. Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025 Patterson enjoys being a tag team with the 6-foot-3, 200-pound Couch. Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025 Cena proposed to the WWE Hall of Famer during WrestleMania 33 after the couple won a mixed tag team match against The Miz and his wife, Maryse. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tag team

Word History

Etymology

tag entry 4

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of tag team was in 1952

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“Tag team.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tag%20team. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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